Ghost Acres is the most unsettling of the Lost Blocks — not because of what it contains, but because of what it is. Located near Old Harbor in GLMZ's waterfr…

Every clock in Kessler Row runs three minutes fast. We have replaced them. We have synchronized them. We have brought in atomic clocks. Three minutes fast. T…

I counted the steps in the stairwell every day for a year. Three hundred and sixty-two days, it was forty-seven steps. Three days, it was forty-eight. Those …

My BCI logged a conversation I had on the 15th. I was alone on the 15th. The other voice in the transcript is mine, but older. She knew things I haven't deci…

My grandmother's recipe calls for an ingredient that does not translate. Not from a language anyone speaks. She learned it from a woman who learned it from a…

The basement of the library contains books that have not been written yet. They are catalogued. They have due dates. Some of them are checked out. Temporally…

The tree in Crucible Square is older than the city. Core samples confirm this. The tree is older than the city by approximately four hundred years. The city …

Planted tomatoes on the roof. They grew overnight. Not fast — they were already grown. Like they'd been there for months. The soil was warm and the roots wen…

She drowned in the harbor in 2214. I know this because I attended her funeral. She is currently alive and does not remember dying. The hospital has her death…

The mural on the west wall of the gymnasium was painted in 2198. It depicts a street scene from the neighborhood. Last year, someone noticed a figure in the …

There is a woman who stands at the corner of Halsted and Division every morning at 4:47 AM. She has stood there for nine years. She does not age. She does no…

There's a woman who walks the Lake Michigan shoreline every morning at 4 AM. She's been doing it since before I was born. My grandmother remembers her. Same …